Assignment 6

I chose to do a tutorial on Cararra. It is a really fun 3-d software. I decided to just kind of do a tutorial on the interface of cararra and how to make a simple scene with a floor and a little table, because it can be a pretty complex piece of software once you get into it.

Once you open up cararra (the brown cube with a C on it), go to file >new >new empty doc. From here, go to insert > infinite plane. This creates sort of a floor. On the right hand side of the screen, there should be a tab labeled as "motion". Click on it and it opens up a place where you can change the coordinates of the plane.

After you move the plane, click on the blue tab on the left hand side of the screen. Pull it out and look at the different shaders. Look under the category of interior, choose one and drag it onto the plane. I prefer the vase texture. Once you do this, click on insert again, and choose cube.

Once again, choose the motion tab and change the size of the x, y and z. red is x, green is y and blue is z. Change the size of the x to 7, y to 15 and z to 1. After you do this, insert 4 more cubes.
Change the size of each of these cubes. x to 1, y to 1 and z to 10. Move the table legs however you want under the table.

To change the view of what you're looking at, there are 4 icons on the left side of the screen. Each icon has 4 different arrows. The first 3 icons are tracking views. If you click on any of them and click on your scene, you can move the scene around. The 4th icon is the dolly. Play around with all of them for a while so you can get a feel for them. All of these are very useful.

Once you have all of the table legs where you want them, shift click on each piece in your scene and hit apple g. this groups all of the pieces together so when you move the table around, the pieces stay in tact. Click on the drop down arrow on the right hand side of the screen, under the word "Group". You have to shade each piece separately. Click on each piece and select another shader. After you shade each piece, click apple r. this will render the scene. If you like what you see, you can save the product.


This is what I got:















Once you get used to this program and start using it a lot, you can make things like this that I did in my 3-d class:

Assignment 5

When Suzannah Moore came in on friday, we discussed how the media and advertisments can affect how a person thinks. We talked about how people change sometimes because of the media. I've noticed that if a certain celebrity is in an advertisement and a person likes that celebrity, they go out and buy the product. Sometimes people change their style to match celebrities. I will admit that I have gotten caught up in advertisements. If I see something I like, I will go and buy the product. Sometimes the advertisements are done so well that it's hard not to want the product they are trying to sell.

We also discussed how sometimes advertisements can be deceiving. We took a survey on friday. On the first part, we had to guess what the advertisement was trying to sell, and who was trying to sell it. Most of us got them completely wrong. One of them had text that said something like "caviar and wine" and had a woman with bright red fingernail polish. Most of the people in class thought it was trying to sell caviar and alcohol, but it was really an ad for fingernail polish. Another one of the ads had a lady in lingerie. I thought it was an ad for lingerie, but it was really an ad about cancer. It is amazing how you think an ad is about one thing and it is really about something else.

Assignment 4

I chose the places for this assignment because I think they would all be really fun to visit, if I had the money. They all have a lot to do and the geography is awesome too.

Here is my KMZ file.. open it, play it and have fun.